Athena Review

Issue index:

Vol. 1, No 1: Romano-British Sites & Museums I: Forts and military sites; Late Iron Age Celts; Angkor Wat; Peter Martyr.

Vol. 1, No 2: Romano-British Sites & Museums II: Towns, villas, markets, baths; New World Voyages of William Dampier.

Vol. 1, No. 3: New World Explorers I: South America & Caribbean; Vikings in Vinland; Rivers from Space.

Vol. 1, No. 4: Sites & Museums in Roman Gaul I; Thracian Treasures; Buddhist Monasteries in Tibet.

Vol. 2, No. 1: New World Explorers II: Yucatán; Great Basin Archaeology.

Vol. 2, No.2: Maya Lowlands: Tikal, Palenque; Egyptian papyri; Sutton Hoo.

Vol. 2, No.3: Romans on the Danube; Viking ships and sagas; Andean Petroglyphs.

Vol. 2, No.4: Neanderthals Meet Modern Humans.

Vol. 3, No.1: Byzantine Cultures, East and West; Buried silk road cities of Khotan.

Vol. 3, No.2: New World Explorers III: Peopling of the Americas

Vol. 3, No.3: Minoan Palaces of Crete: New Interpretations; El Mirón Cave, Spain

Vol. 3, No.4: Rediscovering Lost Civilizations: Reports from the Field.

Vol. 4, No.1: Homo erectus: current findings on an early human ancestor; The prehistory of Sardinia

Vol. 4, No.2: The Flowering of the Gothic in Northern France: Gothic Art and Architecture from Paris to Picardie

Vol. 4, No.3: The Looting of Archaeological Sites: Looting and the Antiquities Market; Central America as a Case Study; Bering Strait Legal Market in Antiquities

Vol. 4, No.4: China

Vol 5, No.1: Records of Life: fossils as original sources

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Athena Review

Journal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration

Athena Review Image Archive (ARIA): a resource for archaeology

Archaeology, and other natural sciences such as geology, biology, and paleontology, study material evidence provided by tangible remains, and the space they occupy.
Visual imagery, including maps, site and artifact photos, and aerial photos, provides key elements for successful research of such evidence.
The Athena Review Image Archive is an accumulation of thousands of images used in the journal's articles and related research in archaeology, history, and paleontology. This visual evidence is available for all to use.
Several subject areas are listed below. Searches can also be made by any keyword.

How to search for images in ARIA:

Use pull-down menus, and/or enter keyword to find thumbnails.
To see the full-size image and description of any thumbnail, click "details" under it

Featured subject areas where images are currently being added:

1. Paleontology: records of ancient life

fossils and research pioneers; the history of paleontology
types of living beings: classification methods, and glossary of terms
the earliest evidence of life on Earth
ancient rivers as sites of life, preserved in rock layers
early vertebrate fossil record: from chordates to tetrapods
synapsids: the ancestors of mammals
mammal evolution in the Mesozoic and Tertiary eras
mammal groups: primates, canids, and equids [humans and apes, dogs, & horses]

Roman sites

2. A survey of Roman-era farming sites in Libya

Between 100 BC and AD 700, a prosperous civilization of north Africans farmed the edges of the Saharah desert, using ingenious irrigation methods
Satellite imagery reveals hundreds of towns abandoned since the 8th c. AD
Archaeologists have reconstructed their town plans and elaborate irrigation systems

3. Han letters from the Silk Road

Personal and official documents from military outposts along the Great Wall of China, ca. 200 BC-AD 200
Archaeology of guard towers in northwest China
manuscripts in several scripts, some long extinct

4. Description de l'Egypte (1799-1809)

How the French began Egyptology

index of early Egyptologists

Egypt and Nubia: map and site index

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